single-celled

1. Made up of only one cell. Bacteria are single-celled organisms.

Example Sentences

A slime mould consists of mobile, single-celled, amoeba-like organisms that live independently but can come together to function as a single entity in order to find food and reproduce.

Read more on BBC

The last common ancestor of plants and animals was a little single-celled organism that lived around 1.5 billion of years ago.

Read more on Salon

Now, TU Delft researchers have shown that even E. coli bacteria -- single-celled organisms only a few micrometres long -- can display this same phenomenon.

Read more on Science Daily

The researchers engineered yeast to act as single-celled drug factories and produce immune checkpoint inhibitors -- anticancer drugs that alert immune cells to the presence of cancer cells.

Read more on Science Daily

This breakthrough reshapes our understanding of the genetic origins of stem cells, offering a new perspective on the evolutionary ties between animals and their ancient single-celled relatives.

Read more on Science Daily